Books in Persian and Arabic

Titles in European Languages

Agostini, Domenico, and Samuel Thrope, eds. The Bundahišn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation: A New Translation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Alikarami, Leila. Women and Equality in Iran: Law, Society and Activism. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

Allchin, Raymond, Warwick Ball, and Norman Hammond, eds. The Archaeology of Afghanistan: From Earliest Times to the Timurid Period: New Edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Almagor, Eran. Plutarch and the Persica. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Álvarez-Mon, Javier. The Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands: A Complete Inventory and Analysis (from the Seventeenth to the Sixth Century BC). University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018.

Álvarez-Mon, Javier, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks, eds. The Elamite World. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2018.

Андреев, Михаил Степанович. Таджики Долины Хуф (Верховья Аму-Дарьи) [Tajiks of the Huf Valley (the Headwaters of the Amu Darya)]. Душанбе: Академии наук Республики Таджикистан, 2020.

Anzali, Ata, and Hadi Gerami, eds. Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran: Mulla Muḥammad-Ṭāhir Qummi’s Ḥikmat al-ʿĀrifīn. Islamicate Intellectual History, 3. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Asutay-Effenberger, Neslihan, and Falko Daim, eds. Sasanidische Spuren in der byzantinischen, kaukasischen und islamischen Kunst und Kultur [Sasanian Elements in Byzantine, Caucasian and Islamic Art and Culture]. Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum 15. Bonn: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2019.

Ball, Warwick, Norman Hammond, and Frank Raymond Allchin, eds. The Archaeology of Afghanistan: From Earliest Times to the Timurid Period. Rev. and updated ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Banakar, Reza, with Shahrad Nasrollahi Fard, Behnoosh Payvar, and Zara Saeidzadeh. Driving Culture in Iran: Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Bancila, Ionut Daniel. Die Mandäische Religion und der Aramäische Hintergrund des Manichäismus: Forschungsgeschichte, Textvergleiche, Historisch-Geographische Verortung. Mandäistische Forschungen 6. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018.

Baṣīr, Ḥāfiẓ. Manifestations of a Sufi Woman in Central Asia. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Baumer, Christoph, and Mirko Novák, eds. Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids: Learnings and Conclusions from New Archaeological Investigations and Discoveries. Proceedings of the First International Congress on Central Asian Archaeology Held at the University of Bern, 4–6 February 2016. Schriften zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 12. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.

Bautch, Richard J., and Mark Lackowski, eds. On Dating Biblical Texts to the Persian Period: Discerning Criteria and Establishing Epochs. Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe 101. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019.

Bayat, Mangol. Iran’s Experiment with Parliamentary Governance: The Second Majles, 1909–1911. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020.

Beek, Lucien, Alwin Kloekhorst, Guus Kroonen, Michaël Peyrot, and Tijmen Pronk, eds. Farnah. Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky. Ann Arbor, MI: Beech Stave Press, 2018.

Ben Azzouna, Nourane. Aux origines du classicisme. Calligraphes et bibliophiles au temps des dynasties mongoles (Les Ilkhanides et les Djalayirides 656-814 / 1258-1411). Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Benjamin, Craig. Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE–250 CE. New Approaches to Asian History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Benkato, Adam. Studies on the Sogdian Epistolary Tradition. Berliner Turfantexte 41. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018.

Berkel, Maaike, and Jeroen Duindam, eds. Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Biran, Michal, Jonathan Brack, and Francesca Fiaschetti, eds. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020.

Birnbaum, Eleazar. Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

Bloch, Yigal. Alphabet Scribes in the Land of Cuneiform: Sepiru Professionals in Mesopotamia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods. Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East 11. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018.

Bockholt, Philip. Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Bonner, Michael Richard Jackson. The Last Empire of Iran. Gorgias Handbooks. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press LLC, 2020.

Briant, Pierre. From Cyrus to Seleukos: Studies in Achaemenid and Hellenistic History. Ancient Iran Series 5. Irvine: University of California, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018.

Bruno, Gentio, and Giulio Maresca, eds. Ceramics and the Archaeological Achaemenid Horizon: Near East, Iran and Central Asia. Napoli: Unior Press, 2019.

Bulliet, Richard W. Methodists and Muslims: My Life as an Orientalist. Ilex Series 22. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Bulliet, Richard W. The End of Middle East History and Other Conjectures. Mizan Series 3. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Callieri, Pierfrancesco, and Adriano Valerio Rossi, eds. Civiltà dell’Iran: passato, presente, futuro: atti del Convegno Internazionale Roma, 22–23 febbraio 2013. Il novissimo Ramusio 6. Roma: Scienze e lettere, 2018.

Cameron, Hamish. Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland. Impact of Empire 32. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

Canby, Sheila, Deniz Beyazit, and Martina Rugiadi, eds. The Seljuqs and Their Successors: Art, Culture and History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Cantera, Alberto, and Céline Redard. Introduction à l’avestique récent. Estudios Iranios Y Turanios. Supplementa Didactica 2. Girona: Sociedad de estudios iranios y turanios (SEIT), 2019.

Casagrande-Kim, Roberta, Samuel Thrope, and Julia Rubanovich, eds. Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Chehabi, H.E. Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State-Building in Iran. Ilex Series 23. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Colditz, Iris. Iranische Personennamen in manichäischer Überlieferung. Iranisches Personennamenbuch Mitteliranische Personennamen, II/Faszikel 1. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2018.

Compareti, Matteo, ed. Fabulous Creatures and Spirits in Ancient Iranian Culture. Bologna: Paolo Emilio Persiani, 2018.

Compareti, Matteo. Dinastie di Persia e arte figurative: Bibliografia ragionata per un millennio e mezzo di iconografie iraniche. Bologna: Paolo Emilio Persiani, 2019.

Cunliffe, Barry. The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Curtis, John, ed. Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2020.

Daryaee, Touraj, ed. Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity: The Bahari Lecture Series at the Oxford University. Ancient Iran Series, VI. Irvine: University of California, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018.

Daryaee, Touraj, and Houri Berberian, eds. Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography. Ancient Iran Series, VII. Irvine: University of California, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018.

Davidson, Olga M., and Marianna Sherve Simpson, eds. The Arts of Iran in Istanbul and Anatolia: Seven Essays. Ilex Series 20. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.

Davis, Dick. Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz—Bilingual Edition. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2019.

De Chiarra, Matteo, Adriano V. Rossi, and D. Septfonds, eds. Mélanges d’ethnographie et de dialectologie irano-aryennes à la mémoire de Charles-Martin Kieffer. Cahiers de Studia Iranica. Louvain: Peeters, 2018.

De Haan, Daniel D. Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna's Metaphysics of the Healing. Investigating Medieval Philosophy 15, Leiden: Brill, 2020.

De Nicola, Bruno. Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206–1335. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Dehdarian, Roja. Selbstentwürfe in der Fremde: der iranische Schriftsteller Bozorg Alavi im deutschen Exil. Bamberger Orientstudien 11. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2018.

De Zeeuw, Hans. Tanbûr Long-Necked Lutes along the Silk Road and Beyond. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019.

d’Hubert, Thibaut, and Alexandre Papas, eds. Jāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World, ca. 9th/15th–14th/20th Century. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section One, the Near and Middle East 128. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Di Cosmo, Nicola, and Michael Maas, eds. Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Dusinberre, Elspeth R.M., Mark B. Garrison, and Wouter F.M. Henkelman, eds. The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Studies in Honour of Margaret Cool Root. Achaemenid History 16. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2020.

Eaton, Richard M. India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019.

Ehsani Chombeli, Azadeh. Moses and Garšāsp, Ārdašīr and Herod: Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud in Their Iranian Context. Bibliotheca Iranica: Zoroastrian Studies Series 5. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2020.

El-Azhari, Taef Kamal. Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Esfandiary, Dina, and Ariane Tabatabai. Triple Axis: Iran’s Relations with Russia and China. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Esfanjary, Eisa. Persian Historic Urban Landscapes: Interpreting and Managing Maibud over 6000 Years. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Faghfoury, Mostafa, ed. Ancient Iranian Numismatics: In Memory of David Sellwood. Ancient Iran Series. Irvine: University of California, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2020.

Farridnejad, Shervin. Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Götterbilder im Zoroastrismus. Iranica 27. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018.

Farridnejad, Shervin, Touraj Daryaee, Parsa Daneshmand, and Arash Zeini, eds. DABIR. Digital Archive of Brief Notes & Iran Review. Vol. 6. Hanns-Peter Schmidt (1930–2017) Gedenkschrift. Irvine: University of California, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018.

Farridnejad, Shervin, ed. Zaraθuštrōtǝma. Zoroastrian and Iranian Studies in Honour of Philip G. Kreyenbroek. Ancient Iranian Series 10. Irvine: University of California, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2020.

Farrokh, Kaveh, Gholamreza Karamian, and Katarzyna Maksymiuk. A Synopsis of Sasanian Military Organization and Combat Units. Siedlce: Publishing House of Siedlce University, 2018.

Farzaneh, Mateo Mohammad. Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East), Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020.

Fatehrad, Azadeh, ed. The Films of Sohrab Shahid Saless: Exile, Displacement and the Stateless Moving Image. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, April 2020.

Firdausi, Abu’l-Qasem. Schahname: Das Buch der Könige. Ed. Nosratollah Rastegar. Trans. Robert Adam Pollak. 4 vols. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2018.

Flatt, E. The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Fraihat, Ibrahim. Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Friedmann, Yohanan, and Etan Kohlberg, eds. Studies in Honor of Professor Shaul Shaked. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences, 2019.

Gall, Hubertus, and Paul Luft. Die qājārischen Felsreliefs: eine kunst- und kulturwissenschaftliche Studie. Archäologie in Iran und Turan 18. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2020.

Gardner, Iain. The Founder of Manichaeism: Rethinking the Life of Mani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Gharipour, Mohammad, ed. Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017.

Gasparini, Mariachiara. Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images. Perspectives on the Global Past. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2019.

Gheissari, Morteza. The American College of Tehran: A Memorial Album, 1932. Ed. and Intro. Ali Gheissari. Irvine: University of California, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2020.

Gohardani, Farhad, and Zahra Tizro. The Political Economy of Iran: Development, Revolution and Political Violence. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland GA and Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Goldberg, Ori. Faith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State: Theologies of the Real. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Gondet, Sébastien, and Eric Haerinck, eds. L’Orient est son jardin: hommage à Rémy Boucharlat. Acta Iranica 58. Leuven: Peeters, 2018.

Green, Nile, ed. The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.

Grube, Christiane. The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.

Gruber, Christiane J., ed. The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World. London: Gingko, 2019.

Gyselen, Rika, ed. Sasanian Persia and the Tabarestan Archive. Res Orientales 27. Bures sur Yvette: Groupe d’Etude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 2019.

Habibi, Rana. Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran: Reproduction of an Archetype: Episodes of Urbanism 1945–1979. Iran Studies 21, Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Harrak, Amir, ed. The Law Code of Simeon, Bishop of Rev-Ardashir. Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 57. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press LLC, 2020.

Hashemi, Manata. Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity. New York: New York University Press, 2020.

Hassanabadi, Mahmoud, Carina Jahani, and Robert Crellin, eds. A Unified Gospel in Persian: An Old Variant of the Gospels along with Exegetical Comments by Yahyā Ibn Ayvaz-e Tabrīzī-Ye Armanī. Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 33. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018.

Heckel, Waldemar. In the Path of Conquest: Resistance to Alexander the Great. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Hemmasi, Farzaneh. Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.

Hermans, Erik, ed. A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2020.

Hintze, Almut, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, and Claudius Naumann, eds. A Thousand Judgements: Festschrift for Maria Macuch. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.

Hosseini, S. Behnaz. Yārsān of Iran: Socio-Political Changes and Migration. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020.

Hoyland, Robert G. History of the Kings of the Persians’ in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. Translated Texts for Historians 69. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018.

Hurvitz, N., C. Sahner, U. Simonsohn, and L. Yarbrough, eds. Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.

Ingenito, Domenico. Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry. Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 41. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Jackson, Cailah. Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s–1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Jacobs, Bruno, and Robert Rollinger, eds. Ancient Information on Persia Re-Assessed: Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Marburg in Honour of Christopher Tuplin, December 1–2, 2017. Classica et Orientalia 22. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.

Jullien, F. Guerre et paix en monde iranien: revisiter les lieux de rencontre. Cahiers de Studia Iranica 62. Leuven: Peeters, 2018.

Kadoi, Yuka. ed. Persian Art: Image-making in Eurasia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Kaicker, Abhishek. The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Karkaria, Bachi. Zarathushtra: God’s Messenger from Ancient Persia. Mumbai: Amar Chitra Katha, 1974.

Kaya, Zeynab N. Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Kellens, Jean. Lecture Sceptique et Aventureuse de La Gâthâ Uštauuaitī. Études Avestiques et Mazdéennes 6. Paris: de Boccard, 2019.

Kellens, Jean. The Fourth Incarnation of Zarathushtra: Avestan Studies in the West. Trans. Richard C. Foltz. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2019.

Key, Alexander. Language between God and the Poets: Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.

Khafipour, Hani, ed. The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Khan, Pasha M. The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2019.

Kia, Chad. Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi’ism in Iran, 1487–1565. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Kia, Mana. Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin before Nationalism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020.Footnote ¹

Колесниковым, Алий Иванович. Священные книги зороастризма. Транслитерация, транскрипция, комментированный перевод трех пехлевийских текстов [The Holy Books of Zoroastrianism. Transliteration, Transcription, Commentary and Translation of Three Pahlavi Texts]. Классика отечественного востоковедения. СПб.: Наука, 2019.

Lahe, Jaan. Mithras—Miθra—Mitra: Der römische Gott Mithras aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte. Kasion 3. München: Zaphon, 2019.

Lecoq, Pierre, trans. Shâhnâmeh: Le Livre des Rois. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019.

Lurje, Pavel, ed. Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of Iranian Studies. Held on 14–19 Sep. 2015 at the State Hermitage Museum and Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, in St Petersburg. Vol. 1: Studies on Pre-Islamic Iran and on Historical Linguistics. St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishers, 2019.

Lynch, Ryan J. Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh al-Buldan of al-Baladhuri. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Malandra, William W. The Frawardīn Yašt: Introduction, Translation, Text, Commentary, Glossary. Ancient Iran Series 7. Irvine: University of California, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018.

Malek, Hodge Mehdi. Arab-Sasanian Numismatics and History during the Early Islamic Period in Iran and Iraq: The Johnson Collection of Arab-Sasanian Coins. 2 vols. Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 55. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 2019.

Marashi, Afshin. Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.

Marlow, Louise. Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran, Vols. I–II. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Marzolph, Ulrich. 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition. Series in Fairy-Tale Studies. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2020.

May, Timothy. Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog, and Christopher P. Atwood. New Approaches to Ilkhanid History. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

McCarty, Matthew M., and Mariana Egri, eds. The Archaeology of Mithraism: New Finds and Approaches to Mithras-Worship. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2020.

McClary, Richard Piran. Medieval Monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries. Series ed. Robert Hillenbrand. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Melville, Charles, ed. The Timurid Century. The Idea of Iran, 9. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan. Intellectual Interactions in the Islamic World. The Ismaili Thread. Shiʿi Heritage Series 6. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Mirsepassi, Ali. Iran’s Troubled Modernity: Debating Ahmad Fardid’s Legacy. The Global Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Moazami, Mahnaz. Laws of Ritual Purity: Zand ī Fragard ī Jud-Dēw-Dād (A Commentary on the Chapters of the Widēwdād), (Iran Studies, 19). Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Mobasher, Mohsen Mostafavi, ed. The Iranian Diaspora: Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018.

Moradi, Yousef, ed. Afarin Nameh: Essays on the Archeaology of Iran in Honour of Mehdi Rahbar. Tehran: Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), 2019.

Muccioli, Federicomaria, Alessandro Cristofori, and Alice Bencivenni, eds. Philobiblos: scritti in onore di Giovanni Geraci. Roma: Jouvence, 2019.

Müller, Sabine. Alexander der Große: Eroberung—Politik—Rezeption. Urban-Taschenbücher. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2019.

Neẓāmī Ganǧavī, Elyās Ebn-e Yūsuf. Layli and Majnun. Trans. Dick Davis. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2020.

Olsen, Birgit Anette, Thomas Olander, and Kristian Kristiansen, eds. Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New Evidence from Archaeology and Historical Linguistics. Pbk. Philadelphia, PA: Oxbow Books, 2019.

Overton, K., ed. Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400–1700. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.

Pickett, James. Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.

Pirart, Éric. Mythologie zoroastrienne: vaches et taureaux en Iran. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2018.

Pirart, Éric. Maniiu et la mythologie protozoroastrienne: étude de textes vieil-avestiques. Acta Iranica 59. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2020.

Rahnema, Ali. Call to Arms: Iran’s Marxist Revolutionaries: Formation and Evolution of the Fada'is, 1964–1976. Radical Histories of the Middle East. London: Oneworld Academic, 2020.

Randjbar-Daemi, Siavush. The Quest for Authority in Iran: A History of The Presidency from Revolution to Rouhani. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

Reeves, John C. Prolegomena to a History of Islamicate Manichaeism. London: Equinox Publishing, 2011.

Rezaei Yazdi, Hamid, and Arshavez Mozafari. Persian Literature and Modernity: Production and Reception. London: Routledge, 2019.

Rezakhani, Khodadad. ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, hbk 2017 (pbk 2018).

Richard, Yann. Iran: A Social and Political History since the Qajars. Trans. Willem M. Floor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Rollinger, Robert, Kai Ruffing, and Louisa Désirée Thomas, eds. Das Weltreich der Perser Rezeption—Aneignung—Verargumentierung. Classica et Orientalia 23. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.

Ross, Kenneth R., Daniel Jeyaraj, and Todd M. Johnson, eds. Christianity in South and Central Asia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Rubanovich, Julia, and Geoffrey Herman, eds. Irano-Judaica VII: Studies Relating to Jewish Contacts with Persian Culture throughout the Ages. Vol. VII. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, 2019.

Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn. The Masnavi of Rumi: A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes. Trans. Alan Williams. 2 vols. London: I.B. Tauris, 2020.

Sauer, Eberhard W. ed. Sasanian Persia: Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, hbk 2017 (pbk 2019).

Schlude, Jason M. Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East. Routledge Studies in Ancient History 12. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Schwartz, Kevin. Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Secunda, Samuel. The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and Its Sasanian Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Seyed-Ghorab, Ali-Asghar, ed. The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, a Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2018.

Shabani-Jadidi, Pouneh, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Shams, Fatemeh. A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic (Oxford Oriental Monographs), New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Shannon, Matthew. Losing Hearts and Mind: American–Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017.

Shayegan, M. Rahim, ed. Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore. Ilex Foundation Series 21. Boston, MA: Ilex Foundation; Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018.

Stewart, Sarah. Voices from Zoroastrian Iran: Oral Texts and Testimony (Part 2, Urban and Rural Contexts: Yazd and Outlying Villages). Iranica, GOF III/NF 18. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.

Stickel, Farida. Zwischen Chiliasmus und Staatsraeson: Religioeser Wandel unter den Ṣafaviden. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 70. Boston, MA: De Gruyter, 2019.

Stoneman, Richard, Krzysztof Nawotka, and Agnieszka Wojciechowska, eds. The Alexander Romance: History and Literature. Eelde: Barkhuis, 2018.

Strootman, Rolf. Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires: The Near East After the Achaemenids, c. 330 to 30 BCE. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Syvänne, Ilkka, and Katarzyna Maksymiuk. The Military History of the Third Century Iran. Siedlce: Scientific Publishing House of Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, 2018.

Szántó, Iván, and Yuka Kadoi, eds. The Reshaping of Persian Art. Insights into Persian Arts, Collectors and Interactions beyond Iran’s Borders. Acta et Studia, XIV. Piliscsaba: Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2019.

Tabandeh, Reza, and Leonard Lewisohn, eds. Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World. Irvine: University of California, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2020.

Taher-Kermani, Reza. The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Tandberg, Håkon Naasen. Relational Religion Fires as Confidants in Parsi Zoroastrianism. Critical Studies in Religion/Religionswissenschaft (CSRRW) 13. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019.

Thapar, Romila, Michael Witzel, Jaya Menon, Kai Friese, and Razib Khan. Which of Us Are Aryans? Rethinking the Concept of Our Origins. New Delhi: Aleph, 2019.

Tiburcio, Alberto. Muslim–Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Uhink-Carlà, Filippo, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, and Anja Wieber, eds. Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World. IMAGINES—Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

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